And she laughs without fear of the future

. like roses, we blossom then die. .

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[heavenhillgirl]

[cithaerons]

Portrait of Jennie (1948) // dir. William Dieterle

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[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

[soft-lovely]

Greenhouse reading nooks 🌱

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[chillpotato]

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

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Haruki Marukami

[fatimazainab]

Charles Lindbergh

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre

[poetry-rivers]

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Then what is afraid of me comes and lives a while in my sight. What it fears in me leaves me, and the fear of me leaves it. It sings, and I hear its song.

Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, and the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.

After days of labor, mute in my consternations, I hear my song at last, and I sing it. As we sing, the day turns, the trees move.

Wendell Berry, from Sabbaths

[luthienne]

Wendell Berry

[idratherdreamofjune]

“Shall we do without hope? Some days there will be none. But now to the dry and dead woods floor they come again, the first flowers of the year, the assembly of the faithful, the beautiful, wholly given to being. And in this long season of machines and mechanical will there have been small human acts of compassion, acts of care, work flowerlike in selfless loveliness. Leaving hope to the dark and to a better day, receive these beauties freely given, and give thanks.”

Wendell Berry, excerpt from an untitled poem in Leavings

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#hafez

[xa-tx]

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”